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🇫🇷France · Emmanuel Macron · Day 1 · 4 sentences

• Every speaker has described the return of imperialism, of arrogance, the return of unrestrained force which knows no rules, a world in which we see power concentrated in the hands of the few, a world in which some believe that they can undermine the international order so as to push their borders outwards, those that believe that people's sovereignty can be toppled over, that they could use that sovereignty, people who believe that they can decide the fate of the planet, whether that be as regards the climate or AI. 5:39:19Copy
• I wish to reassert our commitment to take action hand in hand with each and every one of you. 5:41:26Copy
• We undertook those negotiations working hand in hand with the great powers, that's the BBNJ agreement. 6:00:59Copy
• The rhetoric of defeat that is giving way to empires abusing their powers, threatening the sovereignty of some nations, abuse of power by some who are monopolizing productive capacity, those who are monopolizing the ability to make calculations abuses of power by those who wish to concentrate wealth in their own hands. 6:09:28Copy

🇲🇩Republic of Moldova · Vasile Tofan · Day 5 · 4 sentences

• That is the source of our optimism, our future, remains in our hands. 1:30:53Copy
• The European choice goes hand in hand with a strong transatlantic partnership. 1:31:40Copy
• That solidarity at home must go hand in hand with clarity about the danger around us. 1:36:53Copy
• The optimism that comes from knowing that our future is still in our hands. 1:39:31Copy

🇨🇭Switzerland · Guy Parmelin · Day 1 · 3 sentences

• This neutrality goes hand in hand with a steadfast commitment to the UN Charter, international law, and the UN's three pillars, peace and security, human rights, and sustainable development. 8:47:27Copy
• These two concepts must go hand in hand. 8:51:22Copy
• Perhaps this is where our shared responsibility begins, to keep open the pathways that allow us, in spite of our differences, to continue moving forward hand in hand. 8:55:01Copy

🇯🇵Japan · Takaichi Sanae · Day 1 · 3 sentences

• In this milestone year, I would first like to address how Japan has been tackling the challenges facing the international community, working hand in hand with the United Nations. 10:37:05Copy
• I believe that climate action and economic growth can go hand in hand. 10:50:12Copy
• Furthermore, we have worked hand in hand with United Nations on the two indispensable tasks of establishing rules and institutions and providing support on the ground. 10:55:35Copy

🇮🇷Iran (Islamic Republic of) · Masoud Pezeshkian · Day 2 · 3 sentences

• Our regional issues must be resolved in the region at the hands of the countries in the region without being becoming a toy in the hands of outside aggressors. 1:35:40Copy
• Atomic and nuclear bombs are in the hands of the Israeli regime, but the inspectors are requested to come to Iran. 1:37:17Copy
• Iran extends her hand towards the world. 1:40:04Copy

🇨🇩Democratic Republic of the Congo · Judith Suminwa Tuluka · Day 2 · 3 sentences

• This need for representation goes hand in hand with a need for responsibility, and it is in this spirit that the DRC intends to fully exercise its responsibility when it comes to choosing the next Secretary-General. 11:49:25Copy
• And because the peace sought after in the sub-region ought to go hand in hand with cohesion within our nation, the president of the DRC launched on August 28th a national dialogue for peace, cohesion, and the rebuilding of the state. 11:54:56Copy
• Our hand remains outstretched toward all the children of Congo that choose peace, republican debate, and loyalty to their homeland. 11:55:42Copy

🇨🇴Colombia · José Manuel Restrepo · Day 3 · 3 sentences

• a shopkeeper having to hand over part of the fruits of his labor to extortionists, a mother increasingly gripped by fear every time their child goes out to play in the park. 4:58:33Copy
• On the one hand, a political disagreement being arbitrarily characterized as terrorism and on the other hand, allowing an organization to hide murders, kidnappings, bombings, or deliberate attacks against civilians behind a political label in order to evade the legal consequences of its actions. 5:11:45Copy
• To the nations represented here, I extend my hand respectfully and through friendship. 5:16:03Copy

🇨🇳China · Han Zheng · Day 5 · 3 sentences

• At a time when countries of the world find their futures so closely linked, More and more of them want to join hands to shoulder the historic mission of addressing difficulties and challenges and advancing the well-being of all humanity. 21:26Copy
• China has joined hands with more than three-fourths of the countries in the world in pursuing high-quality Belt and Road cooperation. 30:35Copy
• China will join hands with all other countries to build a community with a shared future for humanity and make the world a better place for all of us. 32:07Copy

🇩🇪Germany · Johann Wadephul · Day 5 · 3 sentences

• In the wrong hands, it can upend our economies and threaten our livelihoods. 5:00:03Copy
• That puts an enormous amount of influence in the hands of a very few. 5:01:24Copy
• The tools are in our hands. 5:12:57Copy

🇱🇺Luxembourg · Guillaume of Luxembourg · Day 1 · 2 sentences

• The enthusiasm they give rise to also goes hand in hand with the very real concerns. 5:27:02Copy
• We should also listen to young people, ask them what we can build working hand in hand. 5:28:03Copy

🇬🇧United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland · Andy Burnham · Day 1 · 2 sentences

• And when it comes to guarding against the risks, we have our world-leading AI Security Institute, working hand in glove with the US and the leading labs on AI safety. 11:09:17Copy
• The traders singing the praises of their products, pushing into my hands peaches and plums from Odessa. 11:13:19Copy

🇧🇪Belgium · Maxime Prévot · Day 1 · 2 sentences

• When migration is left in the hands of smugglers and traffickers, people are exploited, placed in danger, and sometimes lost at sea. 11:59:05Copy
• They must go hand in hand. 12:00:12Copy

🇵🇸Palestine (State of) · Mahmoud Abbas · Day 3 · 2 sentences

• In the Gaza Strip, Our people are being subjected at the hands of the Israeli occupation forces to killing, destruction, starvation, and attempts at displacement, as well as a genocidal war that has created an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe. 1:31:55Copy
• We will extend our hands to a peace based on international legitimacy so that our freedom and independence can be achieved and so that everyone in the region, everyone in the region may live in security, peace, and good neighborliness. 1:50:41Copy

🇵🇹Portugal · Luís Montenegro · Day 3 · 2 sentences

• On the one hand, It is urgent to put an end to the productive conflicts. 6:03:25Copy
• And on the other hand, starting now, we must discuss and decide on complementary ways to mitigate the impact of this energy crisis and prevent it from being prolonged. 6:03:31Copy

🇧🇧Barbados · Mia Amor Mottley · Day 3 · 2 sentences

• We know that many hands make light work. 8:22:28Copy
• Let me say at the outset that when I speak about letting many hands make light work when it comes to conflict resolution, that this is one of the areas in which the political leaders of the Caribbean can play a pivotal role in its own region. 8:33:29Copy

🇳🇱Netherlands (Kingdom of the) · Rob Jetten · Day 3 · 2 sentences

• And I believe there can be only one response, to say, "Hands off the ICC and all those other institutions that protect the international legal order." 9:57:02Copy
• A wall stands watch over their graves, and it is inscribed a simple epithet: "To you, from failing hands, we throw the torch. 10:05:55Copy

🇳🇵Nepal · Balendra Shah · Day 3 · 2 sentences

• On the one hand, there are melting glaciers and failing harvest to floods arriving without warning. 11:37:33Copy
• On the other hand, a global supply chain punishes poor people for causes beyond reason. 11:37:39Copy

🇮🇶Iraq · Ali Falih Al-Zaidi · Day 4 · 2 sentences

• We are striving to ensure that the state is the ultimate decision maker in matters of peace and war, and that weapons and tools of power remain in the hands of its constitutional institutions. 1:04:28Copy
• On this occasion, we extend our hands to everyone on the basis of respect for sovereignty, non-interference, good neighborliness, strengthening mutual interests, and adopting dialogue as a means to address differences. 1:15:18Copy

🇱🇧Lebanon · Nawaf Salam · Day 4 · 2 sentences

• In that spirit, we did not merely affirm the principle that weapons must be exclusively in the hands of the state and that decisions on war and peace rest solely with its constitutional institutions. 1:31:14Copy
• That does not mean, however, that we accept its becoming, once again, an arena for the conflicts of others or a bargaining chip in their hands. 1:32:30Copy

🇸🇧Solomon Islands · Matthew Cooper Wale · Day 4 · 2 sentences

• At home, My government is working hand in hand with churches to build stronger, more inclusive communities. 4:12:25Copy
• Our constitution was established under the guiding hand of God by a people conscious of our common destiny. 4:21:04Copy

🇭🇹Haiti · Alix Didier Fils-Aimé · Day 4 · 2 sentences

• This is the struggle that Haiti is undergoing today, and that's why we call upon the world not to save it, but to stand side by side with it while it takes its own destiny into its own hands. 6:51:57Copy
• These must go hand in hand. 6:55:22Copy

🇵🇰Pakistan · · Day 4 · 2 sentences

• From a serving Indian naval commander, Kulbhushan Jadhav, convicted in Pakistan on terrorism and espionage charges, to Nikul Gupta, who pleaded guilty in the United States for plotting murder of a Sikh leader at the hands of its government, and other implicated in assassination carried out in Canada, India's record speaks for itself. 12:56:20Copy
• Its false narratives and disinformation could not hide the crushing defeat it suffered at Pakistan's hand during Mark-i-Haq in May 2025. 12:58:47Copy

🇧🇫Burkina Faso · Karamoko Jean Marie Traoré · Day 6 · 2 sentences

• For the Confederation, rebuilding trust must go hand in hand with the immediate interest of dealing with state support for terrorists because terrorism can must not continue to be a tool of foreign policy on the part of certain powers the Confederation of Sahel states does not just face a simple sum of isolated terrorist groups we face a persistent enterprise of destabilization supported by considerable means and focused against the right of our peoples to live in peace, to choose their leaders and to have control over their resources and fully exercise their sovereignty. 1:00:16Copy
• Mr. President, rebuilding trust must also go hand in hand with the strict respect for the sovereignty of states, must go hand in hand with the development of partnerships and not servitude, and go hand in hand with justice over outdated neocolonialist principles. 1:02:05Copy

🇩🇿Algeria · Ahmed Attaf · Day 6 · 2 sentences

• We will extend a hand and support political solutions that preserve the stability of the region and open before its people's broader horizons for development and progress. 1:40:19Copy
• We call for a balanced and responsible international regulation of artificial intelligence that would guarantee equitable access to its benefits, that would preserve the sovereignty of states, and that would transform this revolution into a shared opportunity rather than an exclusive privilege or monopoly in the hands of a few. 1:46:36Copy

🇰🇵Democratic People’s Republic of Korea · Kim Son Gyong · Day 6 · 2 sentences

• As the first-hand witnesses of the above realities, all our citizens have become all the more confident that the path we have trodden is the most accurate path, and the self-reliance and self-sustenance of our choice are the surest shortcut to prosperity. 3:48:05Copy
• On the other hand, Japan, an A-class war criminal that inflicted untold sufferings and disasters upon mankind in the last century, is taking advantage of the present international turbulence. 3:52:05Copy

🇧🇷Brazil · Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva · Day 1 · 1 sentence

• Organized crime and corruption walk hand in hand. 1:30:40Copy

🇱🇹Lithuania · Gitanas Nausėda · Day 1 · 1 sentence

• With even major technology companies sending warning signals that control of AI might slip out of humanity's hands, the time is ripe for collective action. 4:17:45Copy

🇵🇪Peru · Keiko Sofia Fujimori Higuchi · Day 1 · 1 sentence

• On the other hand, we've noted that shortcomings and weak points in our education system combined with other factors to predict crime and indeed fuel crime. 4:33:14Copy

🇰🇷Republic of Korea · Lee Jae Myung · Day 1 · 1 sentence

• The most urgent and realistic path is for countries with the capacity and willingness to supply global public goods to join hands and broaden the scope of cooperation. 7:10:32Copy

🇸🇷Suriname · Jennifer Geerlings-Simons · Day 1 · 1 sentence

• Last month, the Republic of Suriname observed its first heritage month under the theme, "Who we hear the same aquama, who we some of further hand," meaning as much as, however we came here, united we move forward. 7:31:02Copy

🇻🇳Viet Nam · To Lam · Day 1 · 1 sentence

• Growth must go hand in hand with social progress and equity, environmental protection and the safeguarding of people's livelihoods, especially for vulnerable countries and communities. 9:34:05Copy

🇲🇦Morocco · Nasser Bourita · Day 1 · 1 sentence

• Further, the close links between these armed groups and separatist militias on the one hand, and terrorist organizations and criminal networks, as well as mercenary elements on the other hand, are evident to all. 12:13:12Copy

🇱🇻Latvia · Edgars Rinkēvičs · Day 2 · 1 sentence

• But in the wrong hands, it can also become a powerful tool for deception, disruption, and conflict. 28:20Copy

🇦🇷Argentina · Javier Gerardo Milei · Day 2 · 1 sentence

• We're going to take matters into our own hands. 2:27:53Copy

🇧🇬Bulgaria · Iliana Iotova · Day 2 · 1 sentence

• On the other hand, compliance with the Non-Proliferation Treaty is key for Iran, which ought first and foremost to adhere strictly to its international obligations and reach a long-term nuclear agreement overseen by the International Atomic Energy Agency. 5:44:19Copy

🇨🇫Central African Republic · Faustin Archange Touadera · Day 2 · 1 sentence

• I say this with the conviction of lived experience Holding out one's hand to yesterday's opponent is not a sign of weakness. 5:57:37Copy

🇵🇦Panama · José Raúl Mulino Quintero · Day 2 · 1 sentence

• So it will be the Panama Canal itself that grew under Panamanian hands and that saw billions of dollars of investments to build the Rio Indio project. 6:15:54Copy

🇪🇹Ethiopia · Taye Atske-Selassie Amde · Day 2 · 1 sentence

• While wealth accumulates in the hands of the few, billions endure the downside of structural deprivation. 6:31:48Copy

🇵🇱Poland · Karol Nawrocki · Day 2 · 1 sentence

• On the one hand, The logic of force and impunity is making a comeback. 7:08:45Copy

🇷🇸Serbia · Aleksandar Vučić · Day 2 · 1 sentence

• The Serbian people, as people who suffered the most from Nazi hands, cannot accept the revival of the most terrible ghosts from the past responsible for the death of hundreds of thousands of Serbs Jews and Roma in monstrous concentration camps like Jasenovac. 8:28:59Copy

🇻🇪Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) · Delcy Eloína Rodríguez Gómez · Day 2 · 1 sentence

• I wish to say to the international community, Venezuela is ready to walk hand in hand with those that believe in respectful international relations, relationships which exist without prejudice or interference. 10:41:08Copy

🇦🇩Andorra · Xavier Espot Zamora · Day 2 · 1 sentence

• On the other hand, we hope that a peaceful solution can be found in Lebanon that fully respects the sovereignty of all countries involved. 11:30:37Copy

🇮🇹Italy · Antonio Tajani · Day 2 · 1 sentence

• Turning back is neither possible nor desirable, but neither can we hand over our future to technology without rules. 12:24:16Copy

🇲🇬Madagascar · Michaël Randrianirina · Day 3 · 1 sentence

• Mr. President, Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, this platform, speaking here at this rostrum, also gives me the opportunity to express our gratitude to all our partners for the trust and support that they have provided and for the fraternal support of the Southern African Development Community, SADC, and the United Nations, standing with us hand in hand since the beginning of the refoundation process. 59:04Copy

🇬🇭Ghana · John Dramani Mahama · Day 3 · 1 sentence

• As the legal maxim goes, whoever comes into equity must come with clean hands. 1:18:38Copy

🇰🇲Comoros · Azali Assoumani · Day 3 · 1 sentence

• As he prepares to hand over the leadership of our organization, and an international context marked by tension and uncertainty, I extend my best wishes to his successor. 2:45:01Copy

🇺🇾Uruguay · Yamandú Orsi · Day 3 · 1 sentence

• We cannot continue to be held hostage to the will of a handful of countries that can be counted on the fingers of one hand, nor can we yield to the economic expediencies of the time. 4:00:39Copy

🇮🇱Israel · Benjamin Netanyahu · Day 3 · 1 sentence

• "The Jew has made a marvelous fight in this world, in all the ages, and he has done it with his hands tied behind his back. 5:55:13Copy

🇳🇬Nigeria · Kashim Shettima · Day 3 · 1 sentence

• A knife can take life in the hands of an assailant and can save one in the hands of a surgeon. 7:19:47Copy

🇹🇭Thailand · Anutin Charnvirakul · Day 3 · 1 sentence

• Development loses its purpose when prosperity remains in the hands of a few. 9:07:32Copy

🇬🇷Greece · Kyriakos Mitsotakis · Day 3 · 1 sentence

• Add to that the possibility of massive job destruction, the likelihood of unprecedented wealth creation in the hands of very few, and the impact that AI may have on the very nature of human relationships, especially for our kids, and you have all the ingredients of an unprecedented political and social upheaval. 10:45:53Copy

🇦🇺Australia · Anthony Albanese · Day 3 · 1 sentence

• Its purpose is to deliver control back into the hands of people by empowering them to determine what appears in their feed, giving them the choice. 11:00:34Copy

🇦🇹Austria · Beate Meinl-Reisinger · Day 3 · 1 sentence

• During my last visit to Kyiv, I witnessed the pain it causes first-hand. 11:46:05Copy

🇲🇹Malta · Robert Abela · Day 4 · 1 sentence

• To do nothing, to stand by and just wash our hands of it, would be a moral and practical betrayal of the citizens, of the millions of citizens who put their faith in us that we won't flinch from the biggest problems and the toughest solutions and decisions needed to tackle them. 2:41:14Copy

🇦🇱Albania · Edi Rama · Day 4 · 1 sentence

• It is better artificial intelligence in the hands of those who remain accountable under the law of the land. 4:57:23Copy

🇧🇸Bahamas (the) · Philip Edward Davis · Day 4 · 1 sentence

• The new ones seek to take our data and hand us back a picture of ourselves, one we did not paint. 6:37:48Copy

🇪🇬Egypt · Moustafa Kamal Madbouly · Day 4 · 1 sentence

• Climate action must go hand in hand with development, poverty reduction and job creation. 7:56:27Copy

🇻🇨Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · Godwin Friday · Day 4 · 1 sentence

• And so that brings us to the task at hand. 8:05:51Copy

🇧🇭Bahrain · Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani · Day 4 · 1 sentence

• Our countries have been subjected to nearly 7,000 attacks at the hands of Iran, involving 1,700 ballistic missiles, 80 cruise missiles and 5,220 drones. 9:29:02Copy

🇲🇺Mauritius · Dhananjay Ramful · Day 4 · 1 sentence

• He will be remembered as a leader with a steady hand, always guided by principles of fairness, compassion, and dignity for all. 11:05:59Copy

🇧🇿Belize · John Briceño · Day 5 · 1 sentence

• Indeed, Mr. President, The United Nations has already placed them in our hands. 57:48Copy

🇻🇦Holy See · Cardinal Pietro Parolin · Day 5 · 1 sentence

• The control of these powerful tools must not remain in the hands of a select few, They must serve humanity, not the other way around. 1:44:13Copy

🇧🇳Brunei Darussalam · Prince 'Abdul Mateen · Day 5 · 1 sentence

• For Brunei Darussalam, stability and development go hand in hand. 3:37:00Copy

🇸🇬Singapore · Vivian Balakrishnan · Day 5 · 1 sentence

• Do you want the nuclear button to be in the hands of a human being or an AI? 4:27:55Copy

🇩🇯Djibouti · Abdoulkader Houssein Omar · Day 5 · 1 sentence

• Once again, we extend a hand to our Eritrean neighbor. 6:49:53Copy

🇲🇾Malaysia · Mohamad Haji Hasan · Day 5 · 1 sentence

• We are those succeeding generation, and that promise now rests in our hand. 7:11:15Copy

🇮🇩Indonesia · Sugiono · Day 5 · 1 sentence

• This goes hand in hand with building our national resilience, because human rights are not only the absence of violence, They are also about ensuring that people have food, education, and healthcare. 9:00:49Copy

🇲🇱Mali · Abdoulaye Diop · Day 6 · 1 sentence

• And for this, the state continues to extend a hand to all those willing to lay down their arms and return to the Republic in line with the conclusions of inter-Malian dialogue and the National Charter for Peace and Reconciliation. 30:09Copy

🇪🇷Eritrea · Osman Saleh Mohammed · Day 6 · 1 sentence

• The prevailing injustice stem from the denial of the rights as well as enabling environment for humanity to create and accumulate wealth without any encumbrances on the one hand, and the usurpation of the right and opportunity for national distribution of whatever nominal wealth they create under subversive conditions on the other. 44:42Copy

🇲🇼Malawi · George Chapatula Chaponda · Day 6 · 1 sentence

• We stand ready to work hand in hand with all Member States to bridge the divide, restore trust in multilateralism, and give a sustainable, dignified future for all humanity. 2:29:24Copy

🇨🇬Congo · Constant Serge Bounda · Day 6 · 1 sentence

• This explains our interest in special economic zones, because we think political sovereignty must go hand in hand with economic sovereignty. 3:00:20Copy

🇸🇩Sudan · Mohieldin Salim Ahmed Ibrahim · Day 6 · 1 sentence

• Therefore, from this UN hall, we reaffirm that comprehensive, lasting, and just peace in Sudan, in a manner that ensures the non-recurrence of conflict, cannot be achieved without ending persistent external interference, halting the flow of weapons, ammunition, and mercenaries into Sudan, dismantling the terrorist militia, stopping its attacks against civilians, cities, civilian objects, infrastructure, dams, medical centers, and hospitals, disarming this militia, and ensuring that arms remain exclusively in the hands of the state and its established legitimate national institutions. 3:16:43Copy

🇦🇪United Arab Emirates · Khalifa Shaheen Al Marar · Day 6 · 1 sentence

• We extend our hands to our partners in the region and the world to build rather than destroy and to unite rather than divide. 3:41:44Copy

🇩🇰Denmark · Christina Markus Lassen · Day 6 · 1 sentence

• The responsibility for this horrific war lies in the hand of the warring parties, yet it is fueled by outside actors and permitted by international inaction. 5:51:24Copy

🇨🇷Costa Rica · Boris Vasir Marchegiani Carrero · Day 6 · 1 sentence

• Costa Rica has first-hand experience of these threats. 6:03:49Copy

🇻🇺Vanuatu · Odo Tevi · Day 6 · 1 sentence

• The hosting of the inaugural Melanesian Ocean Summit in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, this year arrives at a critical juncture where, on one hand, we are faced with daily mounting challenges of the detrimental effects of climate change, the alarming degradation of our marine biodiversity, pervasive marine pollution, and the over-exploitation of our vital marine resources. 6:25:53Copy

🇧🇯Benin · Marc Hermanne Gninadoou Araba · Day 6 · 1 sentence

• Above all, let's prepare ourselves to pass the baton because The responsibility of a generation is not just to receive the world bequeathed to them from those who came before, it is also to have the courage, the vision, the determination to hand down a better world to those who come after you. 6:58:42Copy

🇰🇵Democratic People's Republic of Korea · · Day 6 · 1 sentence

• On the other hand, it is widely known that Japan formulated the possession of preemptive attack capabilities by revising the national security strategy in 2022 and is now speeding up purchase and development of long-range missiles. 7:56:07Copy